Quotes About Alienation

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.

Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

The pathology is simply this: we have come to full reflective self-consciousness without the experience of intimacy with God. Because that crucial reassurance is missing, our fragile egos desperately seek other means of shoring up our weaknesses and defending ourselves from the pain of alienation from God and other people.

As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and walking without the interference of those grosser creatures who shared my world. It was not an experience completely without interest or even pleasure. The clown's shibboleth of "here we are again" took on a new meaning for me as I felt myself a novitiate of a more rarified order of harlequinry. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin")

We have long since been denizens of the natural world. Everywhere around us are natural habitats, but within us is the shiver of startling and dreadful things. Simply put: We are not from here. If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse.

Sometimes you just have to keep some distance between yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.

Sometimes you just have to keep some distance from yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.

He became a seeker of crowds, but the crowds thinned and abandoned him. He became a seeker of lights, but the lights grew strange and led him into desolate places.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

I always felt like that myself, that I didn't marry into the landscape of the human world like others did

I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.

I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

There are very few moments in my life where I feel normalcy.

Normality is death.

Nuestra cólera no se nutre . . . del temor de ser utilizados por nuestros confidentes . . . sino de la vergüenza de haber renunciado a nuestra soledad. El que se confía, se enajena.